New Webinar: Reporting Functional Limitations on Claim Forms

Beginning
January 1, 2013, outpatient therapy providers will need to report information
about their Medicare patient’s functional limitations on the claim
form. This reporting requirement will apply to outpatient physical
therapy, occupational therapy, and speech language pathology services provided
in hospitals, critical access hospitals, skilled nursing facilities,
comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities (CORFs), rehabilitation
agencies, home health agencies (when the beneficiary is not under a home health
plan of care), and in private offices of therapists, physicians and
nonphysician practitioners. A new APTA webinar recording provides information
regarding the new functional limitation reporting as you implement the
requirement in your practice. Specific information is provided on which new
codes to report, documentation, and claims submission. The video can be found
on the Functional
Limitation Reporting Under Medicare webpage under General Information.

Comments

Unable to download the "new APTA webinar"

Posted by Gary Keown
on 12/21/2012 11:51 AM

Please give me some insight on how this affects patients being seen for wound care in out-pt clinics. I would like to pass this on to all the members of our Wound Care SIG asap, and not sure what to tell them. Thanks so much for your help.